Some writers like pairing up characters of opposite sex and opposite ends of the size spectrum. The height difference goes well beyond One Head Taller, and the tall one is often several times wider to boot.

Averted more often than not in film and Live-Action TV, where props and camera angles are employed to equalize the heights of the leading man and lady, to make filming easier (otherwise, getting them in the same shot would be a pain in the arse). Even when the actors themselves represent this trope, if it appears on screen you can be sure there was an intentional choice to invoke it.

Usually, it's the man who's bigger. This is an exaggeration with some basis in truth: the median height for males is slightly higher than that for females, and many people choose opposite-sex mates with the "traditional" comparative height. Physical attraction aside, the idea of a big hulking giant showing his soft side for his little lady is popular with many viewers.

The relationship is not always romantic or sexual. Sometimes, the girl is a Morality Pet who hangs out with the guy to show he isn't a brute, or it could just be a platonic friendship. They could even be relatives.

Examples:

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In Beastars Haru the bunny stands at the height of Legosi the wolf's waist.

In Berserk, the exceptionally tall and muscular protagonist Guts has a tendency to form intergenerational friendships with small-statured teenage girls he meets on his journeys. Jill, who serves as his Morality Pet during the "Lost Children" arc, is one example. He definitely has this dynamic with the young witch Schierke, who supports him in combat with her magic and clings to him in her astral form in order to keep him from losing his mind while he's enclosed in the Berserker Armor. In both of these cases the girl has a Precocious Crush on Guts, while his feelings fall under Big Brother Instinct.

Narumi and Shirogane of Karakuri Circus; while Shirogane is pretty average, Narumi is an enormous kempoist.

Kill la Kill has Ira Gamagoori and Mako Mankanshoku. Mako is about the size of an average girl her age, while Gamagoori is a giant whose size varies depending on the scene (though at his smallest he's easily 7 feet tall). The two are on pretty good terms with each other despite being on opposing sides for most of the series. It dips into Ship Tease later on when Gamagoori constantly risks his life to protect her. The epilogue of the series even gave the possibility of him asking her out.

Blame!: Cibo and Killy, after Cibo's body is destroyed and she ends up occupying a new, much smaller one.

In Eat-Man, protagonists Bolt's average Girl of the Week's head hovers somewhere around his chest, and only has a third of his shoulder width. With his Badass Longcoat on, you'd probably never notice most of them if they're standing behind him.

Of the more shippy variant is Al and Mei, due to Al's current bound-to-a-frickin-huge-suit-of-armor form. And — before the inevitable comments — Al is only 14 and not that much older than Mei, and he's also never technically been through puberty since he spent his teenhood so far outside of his physical body and in a suit of armor. After the series, they both have growth spurts and the difference between them is minimal. Also, they may or may not have hooked up.

Non-romantic (And perhaps all-too literal) example: Zest and Agito in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. Zest and Lutecia, as well, but they don't hang out together as much. This may be a Shout-Out to Zanger Zonvolt and Irui from Super Robot Wars, as there are quite a few other references in the Nanoha series.

Alice in Pumpkin Scissors isn't exactly tiny, but she looks it compared to Randal, who's estimated at seven feet tall.

YuYu Hakusho: Kuwabara (6'3") and his crush Yukina. Her height is never given but she is visibly smaller than her brother Hiei, who stands at 4'10".

From the same series is Younger Toguro and his ex-girlfriend Genkai. The former easily towers over nearly everyone, and was about a head and shoulders taller than Yusuke when still human, while the latter tops out around the height of a 12 year old even into old age.

Bleach: Kenpachi (202 cm/6'7.5") is perhaps the most masculine character in the series, being a very strong and physically imposing man who is ridiculously obsessed with the adrenaline rush of battle. Meanwhile, his constant companion Yachiru (109 cm/3'7") is a (seemingly) sweet little girl. As lieutenant of the combat-renowned 11th Division, she's more than earned the right to be second-in-command, but the reason she can ride around on Kenpachi's back is because she's so very tiny compared to his great size.

Rukia, who stands at at 144cm or roughly 4'9" - is this with practically all the main male characters. This dynamic is especially apparent between her and her Childhood Friend and later husband, Renji, who is 188cm or around 6'2" - she only comes up to his elbow.

Shiryuu Kusanagi and Yuzuriha Nekoi in X1999. Non-romantic example: Fuuma Monou and his Ill Girl of a younger sister, Kotori.

Riful and Dauf in Claymore, he being a large, mostly unintelligent brute and she being a tiny girl, most noticeable when he's in his Awakened form and she's perched in human form on his shoulder. They also have a pastime of torturing people to make them Awaken. Ironically inverted whenever she Awakens, as while Dauf's Awakened form is huge, hers is colossal.

In Hiyokoi, the main character, Nishiyama Hiyori is only 140 centimeters (4'7 ft.), while her love interest, Hirose Yuushin, is 190 centimeters (6'3 ft.)

Emperor Dornkirk invokes an image of Van's Escaflowne being guided by Hitomi's prophetic abilities to take over the world in one of his visions. This doesn't happen so explicitly but that's what happens throughout the series.

And for a straight up example instead of the Giant Robot variant, we have Hitomi (160 cm, or approximately 5'3") and Allen (185 cm, or about 6'1")

Full Metal Panic! has one instance when Sousuke was piloting the Arbalest while carrying Kaname in one hand and Kurz in the other. She was rather enjoying herself until he suddenly threw her into the air to free up one arm for attacking and then caught her on the way down. Needless to say, she didn't appreciate it.

While Deunan in Appleseed is actually rather tall compared to most women and quite strong, Briareos can only be described as huge. Next to him Deunan does look rather tiny. They also venture into the Beast and Beauty territory thanks to Briareos being a full-body cyborg.

In the second movie, this seems to be less overt and seems a little closer to the One Head Taller region. He's still significantly buffer than Deunan, so it probably still counts.

Marcus and Mission Control Anya are implied to have this festering. Though like in the Resident Evil example, it has more to do with bulk than height.

Old Boy: At least in the manga version, protagonist Shinichi Goto and his girlfriend Eri. He's significantly taller and more heavily built. Her habit of hanging onto his side emphasizes the size difference.

Bluebeard and Josephine in Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics. Josephine only reaches Bluebeard's shoulders. Apparent to a lesser extent with Maria and the beast in the "Beauty and the Beast" episode. Even in his human form, the beast is considerably taller than Maria.

In Trigun, Vash is almost a foot taller than Meryl and has to really bow down when he wants to hug her, especially in the manga.

Grave:This girl... to protect this girl... That is what Millenion means to me. It is my way of life.

Michel Blanc and Kuran Kuran (often a full-sized Zentraedi) from Macross Frontier. That is, if Kuran isn't Micloned. If she does, the trope is played straight instead, as she looks much smaller and younger than her real age.

An example with two males: Jin Akutsu and Taichi Dan from The Prince of Tennis. There's also Miyuki Chitose and either her older brother Senri or "thief-bro" Tezuka, as well as Munehiro Kabaji and his (unnamed) older sister...

Chrono Crusade: Rosette and Chrono don't look like this at first, and might even look like an inversion, but the cute little boy thing is just his Sleep-Mode Size — In his real form, Chrono completely towers over the girl.

Rurouni Kenshin: Misao isn't much shorter than Kaoru, making her closer to average height for a girl her age. But Aoshi's so tall and lanky, that she looks like a kid when standing next to him.

Maken-ki!subverts the trope with Kai and Azuki, who's actually one of the tallest girls at Tenbi Academy. Except Kai's so gigantic, that she (and everyone else, for that matter) looks tiny compared to him. Even without his getta, the top of her head barely reaches his waist level!.

Inu-Yasha's mother and father. He visits his father's grave and enters his father's remains and has room in his chest to both move around and fight his brother. We see his mother in a flashback and she was a normal-sized human lady. Even in his human size, the father is noticeably taller than she is.

Likewise for Sesshoumaru's mother, who even in her dog demon form is much smaller than his and Inu-Yasha's father.

Sweden and Finland are both men, with Sweden being much taller (at least by 4.7" (12 cm), according to Finland in one strip).

Germany and North Italy, with the latter having difficulty even hugging the former.

The most blatant example is England and America. Both fanon dōjinshi and canon (in the strips) greatly exaggerate their already existing height difference; technically, America is just .75" (2 cm) taller, but England is drawn much shorter than he truly is (he and France are around the same height, according to the charts, but France is drawn taller). This is sort of justified when one thinks about just how much bigger the US is than the UK...

The fanart for America and England is absurd. America looks about eight inches taller than England. To think England is the 'big brother'.

South Korea, as the tallest of the Asians (apparently tall enough to stand eye-to-eye with America), has these dynamics with almost everyone in the group. China◊is the◊biggest◊example◊ but there's also Taiwan◊ and Hong Kong◊ (sometimes).

There's also Monaco, who is shorter than one of the younger characters, Liechtenstein. In strips with France or Serborga, she barely comes up to their chests, despite the fact that they're both of rather average height.

Ryuuji, the hero of Toradora!, is about average-sized; it's the heroine Taiga that's short. Played up for laughs in the first chapters of the manga, but eventually moves on to the One Head Taller range. She also puts the Tsun in Tsundere — the school is terrified of her, and calls her "The Palmtop Tiger".

Also, while Zelgadis is very slender and only about 5'7" (170 cm), he looks much taller when paired with 4'9" (145 cm) Amelia. Amelia grows a bit through the seasons, though, which makes sense when you consider her family particularly her sister.

The main couple of Midori Days would have counted even before she became his right hand.

Mamoru and Haruka from Until Death Do Us Part. She's like only up to his stomach. Or course she's still a kid.

If one reads the manga version of Star Ocean: The Second Story, they might get this impression of Ashton and Precis, as in some pages, Ashton appears to be twice Precis's height. In actuality, it's not QUITE a huge difference. According to official records, Ashton is 5'10" (180 cm), while Precis is about 5'1" (155 cm), meaning there's only a 16% difference in height (that still makes Precis fit the tiny girl part of the equation, so they might still be considered as qualified for this trope).

Precis looks SO young that Ashton was earlier accused of being an ephebophile when he expressed an interest in her. She later states that she's 16 (Ashton is 20), so depending on your stance on the legal age limit, he might actually be one.

Fushigi Yuugi also has an example. Yui Hongou and her chief Seiryuu Seishi-slash-confidante, Nakago, are at least ten inches apart.

In a non-romantic subversion (not that the first example was romantic anyway), Miaka is only three or four inches taller than Chiriko, but he's only shown to be up to her waist.

Sakura's parents in Code:Breaker. Dad is a normal/tallish katana-wielding retired badass ill guy, mom is a tiny Moe Blob who loves costumes. Oh, and Sakura's adopted, so who knows if they're actually married.

Code Geass: Li Xingke (24) and Empress Tianzi (13). This was a romantic relationship, at least for Tianzi. She was even about to be married to Prince Odysseus who looks to at least be in his thirties until Zero stopped the marriage ceremony.

Romantic example with Pip and Seras at least in the OAV, where he (and the other wild Geese mercs) is drawn significantly taller than Seras.

Another non-romantic example in GaoGaiGar: Mamoru is a short 9-year-old who barely comes up to Gai's waist (and that's because of his hair). See also Volfogg, a Transforming Mecha who protects Mamoru as one of his primary duties, and Mike Sounders the 13th, who is probably the closest to Mamoru after Gai.

From the picture of them that we see, Joey Jones' parents in Heroman, it's kinda like looking at Heroman and Joey side-by-side. And if you think it applies, this also goes for Heroman and Joey.

S.S. Astro has a platonic example where a small girl and a rather large colleague are participating in a three-legged race at the sports festival. It's not really a fair race when the guy can simply pick up the girl and run off with her.

Izumi: Umm... do you think we should switch them with someone else? It looks like he's kidnapping her... Yuko: Personally, I love the combination.

Another non-romantic example can be found in SoltyRei. Roy Revant is 197 cm (about 6'7") and muscular, while his adoptive daughter Solty is 153 cm (about 5'1") and slender.

Koi Kaze, whose story involves Brother–Sister Incest, features big and burly 27 year old Koshiro and his small, cute 15 year old sister Nanoka. The conflict between their feelings for each other and society's norms is made that much harder because of their size and age difference in addition to being blood siblings.

Yamato absolutely towers over his love interest Sayama, despite her still being a fairly average height. Then again, there's really only Akitsu, that Yamato doesn't tower over, so he would be an example of this no matter who it was, or what kind of relationship he had.

Koganei Hana, a girl who looks no older than five, and Edile the Glutton, a Karakuri Douji the size of a building.

Brigadoon: Marin and Melan gives us Melan Blue, a robot a little taller than (most) human beings, and Marin, a young teenager who seems to be short for her age.

In One Piece the late Mermaid Queen was a human-sized mermaid who was incredibly fragile. Her husband King Neptune is a giant merman. Their daughter the Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi takes after her mother in looks but takes after her father in size. The fact that the Mermaid Queen was able to survive giving birth to a giant isn't the weirdest thing in One Piece says all that needs to be said about the series. Mainly that it is awesome.

Eas/Setsuna and Westar/Hayato of Fresh Pretty Cure!. The exact nature of their relationship is up for debate, but they do have a strong connection to one another either way.

Sacred Seven: Like many other tropes taken to ridiculous extremes, Alma is (195cm) to Ruri's (144cm).

Slam Dunk: Any important male character (except Miyagi) when paired with any of the few female characters in the show. It's completely justified though since they're all basketball players, so most of them are 6ft or over.

In the original Astro Boy manga's World's Greatest Robot story arc, the developing relationship between Astro Boy's younger sister Uran and the giant robot Pluto. Uran helped turn Pluto from a proudBlood Knight into someone genuinely trying to find something in life more than just fighting. Too bad it was a Kill 'em All story.

The anime canon of Persona 4: The Animation has Kanji and his interest in Naoto. Yosuke (175cm) and Narukami (180cm) are roughly the same height, and the same can be said of Chie (158cm), Rise (155cm) and Yukiko (164cm) (who are about a head shorter than the first two). Meanwhile Kanji (183cm) tends to be drawn roughly one to one and a half heads taller than Narukami and Yosuke, Naoto (152cm) is about a head to a head and a half shorter than the rest of the female cast... while wearing platformed boots.

Seen between Gajeel and Levy of Fairy Tail. Gajeel stands several feet than taller than Levy and, at one point, single-handedly lifts her off the ground. Levy meanwhile is possibly the shortest member of the guild. (Not counting the Exceed Squad)

In Sachiare!, Tomoharu is a normal height, but his wife Sachiko is so short he basically has to pick her up or sit on the floor to kiss her.

Sorieke! Anpanman has a few of these. There's Jongara-kun and Bachi-chan, Tahara-kun and Rice-chan, and Hotcakeman and Sryup-chan.

Nozaki and Sakura are the tallest and shortest members of the cast of Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, respectively. Specifically, they're one foot and a half apart in height; Nozaki clocks in at 190cm, unusually tall for a Japanese person, while Sakura is at 145cm, at the low end of Japanese normalcy.

Takeo and Yamato from My Love Story!!. He is 2 meters tall and she just barely reaches his chest.

Attack on Titan: Reiner and Bertolt, the two tallest members of the 104th Trainee Corps, may have romantic interests in the two shortest girls in the Trainee Corps. Like most things in the series, things are still unclear.

Ken and Shoko Shiina in Futari Ecchi. Ken looks like a Yakuza thug, while Shoko looks like a little girl, despite being in her mid-20's.

Ani ga Imouto de Imouto ga Ani de has two pairs of these. Youta Koizumi and Kakeru Mayama are fairly tall teenage boys. Hikaru Koizumi and Yurika Oda, the two teenage girls they swap bodies with, are tiny. While their heights aren't explicitly given, they appear to be about 4'0" tall.

In both the source material and anime adaptation of Grimoire Of Zero, Mercenary towers over Zero, and frequently carries her around on his shoulder. In the opening to the anime he literally picks her up and throws her into the air.

The Joker and Harley Quinn - although Joker is sometimes described as only 6' tall he's more often 6'3" or 6'4" and drawn in a particularly lanky fashion, while Harley (a former gymnast) barely comes up to his shoulders.

Well before these Johnny-come-latelies, the original dimorphic superhero couple: Ant/Giant-Man and the Wasp, both are size-changers, so this mostly only comes into play when he grows and she shrinks. Applied to non-combat situations for awhile when Giant-Man got stuck at around twelve feet tall, and Wasp was still her usual 5'4".

The Thing and Alicia Masters; it doesn't help that Alicia is also blind. This was even joked about in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer when Johnny asks how Ben and Alicia manage a sex life. He then explains that he's only asking out of concern that Alicia might one day be killed in a "rock slide" and runs as Ben comes after him.

It's hinted, several times, that the Thing has no... ehm... external organs, because the rock skin is actually an exoskeleton of some sort. Obviously different authors said differently, but the Thing never got a "giant penis" joke, while other "big guys" (like the Hulk), had.

Ironically, this was a serious plot device for the Thing in some early issues. He actually tried to resist his desire to become human again, fearing that Alicia would not love him if he was "plain old Ben" (seeing as she had not met him before he became the Thing).

The Incredible Hulk. Oh, the Hulk, even his Amazonian Beauty cousin She-Hulk is only chest height to him. Some artist's renditions of the Hulk are capable, and actually have held love interests clasped between his hands.

Part of the problem with the Hulk is that his size is incredibly inconsistent, to the point where it'll vary between panels on the same page. His third wife, Caiera, was a hot amazon with similar proportions to his cousin. Some panels had them standing next to each other with only a few inches difference in height, while others have him absolutely dwarfing her. The Hulk's official height is less than eight feet tall, however some panels will have him pushing fifteen feet for dramatic effect.

This is not so much artist variation as an effect of his powers, part of his ability to get stronger as he gets madder is an increase in size, up to a maximum of twelve feet.

The size changing thing is a handwave that may or may not be used Depending on the Writer. Most writers have his size remain consistent, though the artwork usually won't reflect this for dramatic purposes. This is why the Hulk won't always just get bigger as he gets angrier, he'll vary in either direction from one panel to another(even if they show the same moment in time or are separated by a matter of seconds).

Originally, Bruce Banner became the Hulk by saving an irresponsible teenager from being caught in an atomic bomb blast and that said teenager became hulk's companion, which would make it another trope altogether.

Ultimate Hulk can be worse. Typically only around the 8 foot mark, there's one storyline where he's somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty feet tall and had a harem of dozens of normal sized women.

In Runaways, Chase appears to be at least a foot taller than his girlfriend, Gert.

The Italian underground comic book Ranxerox is an example: the titular Ranx is a huge robot (one can describe him as a punk Frankenstein's monster) that, because of a malfunction of his electronic brain, loves and follows little Lubna, who is a young, petite, and very nasty Little Miss Badass.

The Maxx has the semi-platonic versions, with the Maxx and Julie, the Maxx and Sarah, Sarah and her Maxx.

Barbaric and Ricochet in The Savage Dragon and Freak Force; Barbaric is of a Hulk-like stature, while Ricochet is rather small for her age.

In ElfQuest Dewshine/Tyldak display this trope. Other couples do as well, due to major height disparities between different generations of elf.

Dwight and Miho from Sin City is a platonic example. Dwight clears six feet while Miho is often described as being barely five feet tall. As the series progressed, Frank Miller decided to exaggerate the differences to the point where Dwight looks as if he could swallow Miho.

Les Innomables, a French comic by Yann and Conrad, has Mac Buttle, a rather rotund adventurer deserted from the US military, and Alix, whose mother was executed by the Communists. Mac isn't that much taller than Alix, but he's at least four times as wide.

In Astérix and Caesar's Gift, it's notable that the reason Obelix feels attracted to Influenza is because of how small and light she is. He mentions how light she is several times, annoying his dog.

Fan Works

Several examples in The Bridge, mostly due to the kaiju ponies being well above average size. Most notably, Anguirus finds Gentle Leaf, a little filly lost in the woods, and takes care of her; resulting in they traveling together with her riding on his back a lot. Within some bonding time Anguirus takes on a Parental Substitute for the little one until he can get her back to her parents, and Gentle Leaf being in danger is what causes his Big Brother Instinct to flare up.

Though not canon in any sense, BIONICLE fans tend to pair up Toa Hewkii and Macku. Macku is a three foot tall fisherwoman, Hewkii is a seven-foot-six super hero with stone and gravity powers.

A more canon example would be Mata Nui and Kiina. Sure, at seven-and-a-half feet tall, Kiina is hardly "tiny" by most people's standards, but when you consider that Mata Nui's original form is forty million feet tall, it becomes a highly exaggerated version of this trope.

Like the Bionicle example above, this is not canon, but a lot of 9 fic-writers like pairing the enormous8 with 4, who is one of the smallest characters. (Most writers like to think of 4 as a female, thus making it an example of this trope and not Big Guy, Little Guy.)

In the Happy Tree Friends fandom, one particular Fan-Preferred Couple is Flippy (a bear) and Flaky (a porcupine). While the two (like most of the characters) are the same size on the show, some fans like to de-anthropomorphize the characters. D'aww ensues.

Hit And Miss, a NSFW Balthier/Ashe fanfic, brings up the difference in the two characters' heights frequently. When it's mentioned in Chapter 20, Balthier sleeps with someone else and can't stop himself from thinking that, compared to Ashe, she's too tall.

The Servants Of Ungoliant features The 25-year-old Jhebdryk, who is the tallest and most muscular of the main Darklanders and The 18-year-old Rhejya, who is one of the youngest of the main Darklanders. Also doubled with One Head Taller.

PudgyPudge's work Master of the Zanbatous. By the time the story ends, Sakura is able to ride atop Naruto's shoulders in a fashion reminiscent of Kenpachi and Yachiru It IS stated that in order to wield the blades effectively, he had to undergo a MASSIVE growth spurt, but 4'6" to 6'11" seems a tiny bit excessive.

Any fanfic shipping Supernatural's Sam Winchester (6'5" and muscular) and Gabriel (5'8" and compact). (Since Gabriel's an angel, though, it's actually inverted once they're out of their meatsuits—Sam's soul can fit in a briefcase, while a younger and less powerful angel than Gabriel is the size of the Chrysler building, so Gabriel's probably even larger.)

Wheatley's human body in the Portal 2 fanfic Blue Sky is based on actor Stephen Merchant, who is 6'7". Chell is described as being "not particularly tall".

The Star Wars: The Old Republic fanfic Remi The Grey has Jedi Knight Remi, who is described (and shown in artwork by the author) as quite petite, paired up with Lord Scourge who is canonically the tallest and most muscular body type available for males in the game.

In the Uplifted series Joachim Hoch is described as just under 6'5 and built like a grizzly bear. Hanala on the other hand is lucky to be 5'1. Of course size means nothing but a height difference as Hanala is the brutally violent one.

Fans like to pair Arcee with Bulkhead from Transformers Prime. Arcee is shorter than Bumblebee and Bulkhead comes up to Optimus's chest pre-upgrade.

Bree and Min of the Tomb Raider (2013) fanfic The Dreaming form a variation on this trope. Though both are female, Min is very tall and androgynous, while Bree is much shorter and girlier.

This series ofJudge Dredd movie-verse fanfics features Judge Anderson (specifically stated to be 5'4" like the actress who plays her) totally-not-paired-with Judge Cornelius (described as "six-foot-four of Baltimore beefcake" and explicitly taller than Dredd himself. Although not played for laughs, there are several instances where the height difference is obvious - once when he puts his elbow on her shoulder for support after being injured by the knife nut.

Marcus Romero and Amy Zavala, the District 2 tributes from The 92nd Annual Hunger Games are totally this. Marcus is a 6'5", 200-lb gargantuan 18-year-old, while his partner Amy is a 4'10", 90-lb little 14-year-old. However, Amy proves to be far from harmless, and can hold her own in the fight for survival alongside Marcus.

Old West has Rattlesnake Jake (a staggering-sized rattlesnake) and Grace Glossy (a shorter and a lot slimmer glossy snake). The pictures provided by the author (links provided here) help to outline the comparison.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Even after the transformation there's still a quite a size difference. Also Jerk Ass Gaston was quite bigger than Belle was. In the musical Belle is usually cast as short as possible to play up this aspect.

In Mulan II, Chien-Po, the guy big enough to pick up four people and a horse, ends up with the tiniest of the princesses.

A non-romantic example. Monsters, Inc. has Sulley (a furry monster with the build of a lineman) grows attached to a two-year-old girl which he names "Boo." Also, it's worth noting that his assistant (and all the assistants of the 'scarers' at their workplace) are dwarfed by their counterparts, with Mike being about the size of Sulley's head.

Kerchack and Kala from Disney's Tarzan. This one's justified, since male gorillas really are much bigger than the females.

Alpha and Omega has one: A biker and a librarian. Opposites attract indeed....

Short and squat Maudie, and the nameless, towering Hunk from Clan Dingwall appear to be heading this way, as evident by the end of the film.

Also King Fergus and Queen Elinor. They're fairly similar in height - indeed, Elinor is quite tall - but Fergus is about five times wider.

Francoeur of A Monster in Paris is a seven-foot, anthropomorphic flea, so he's taller than most people, but his dance partner/sister figure Lucille is pretty small compared to the more normal-sized cast members.

Flynn and Rapunzel from Tangled avert this. However, an earlier version of the script played it straight. Bastion was Rapunzel's love interest before Flynn but was scrapped for a more conventionally handsome protagonist. Bastion was a very large guy while Rapunzel is somewhat short. Rapunzel didn't even reach Bastion's shoulders.

Kristoff, from Frozen, bears a partial resemblance to the scrapped Bastion, being taller and stockier than the average Disney leading male. However, he's still more conventionally attractive, and is only One Head Taller than Anna, rather than towering over her.

Moana has a platonic example with the title heroine and Maui. Moana is an average-sized teenage girl, while Maui is considerably taller and about 2-3 times her width.

There's also a romantic example with Moana's parents. Tui is slightly over a head taller than Sina, as well as about twice her width.

Jaws and his girlfriend, Dolly, in Moonraker. There was some concern about audiences accepting the height difference until Richard Kiel pointed out his real-life wife was the same height.

Blade II. Lighthammer and his lover Verlaine, two vampire members of the Bloodpack.

In The Wanderers, the leader of The Fordham Baldies, Terror, is played by the 6'6 and well over 300 lbs Erland van Lindh, while his girl Peewee is played by the 4'10 Linda Manz.

The guy who built the building in Being John Malkovich was allegedly a sea captain married to a dwarf woman and built the 7 1/2 floor for her and her "accursed kind" (Catherine Keneer's character doesn't believe it).

In Black Cat, White Cat, six-foot plus Grga Veliki and midget Afrodita end up together, after Grga finds her in a stump. It Makes Sense in Context.

King Kong (1933). Played with, in fact, by Merian C. Cooper. According to Fay Wray, when she was given the part of Ann Darrow, Cooper told her that she'd be working with "the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood."

Bruce Cabot, who played her human love interest, was also nearly a foot taller than her.

Taken to an extreme in Big Top Pee-Wee, with circus owner Kris Kristofferson and his wife, who is small enough to live in his shirt pocket.

The film version of Thor has the waifish Natalie Portman paired with the towering and chiseled Chris Hemsworth.

In Mirrormask, Valentine isn't "huge", but he is far enough on the tall side to contrast with petite Helena.

Ambrose and Ermengarde in the film Hello, Dolly!, played by 6-foot-7 Tommy Tune and the 4-foot-10 Joyce Ames. At one point they're dancing and he lifts her off her feet to disguise her short height (making her less notable to her Overprotective Uncle sitting nearby).

The Force Awakens: Maz Kanata offhandedly refers to Chewbacca, who's at least a meter taller than her, as her 'boyfriend'.

In Tarzan The Ape Man and its sequels, Johnny Weissmuller was a full foot taller and considerably more massive than Maureen O'Sullivan.

The massive, 6'4" John Wayne was this next to most of his female co-stars. A particular striking example was Angie Dickinson from Rio Bravo, who was slender, petite, and stood nearly a foot shorter than Wayne.

A "Post-Modern Fairy Tale" book features a very butch princess (she likes wrestling and fixing helicopters) whose parents force her to preside over an engagement gauntlet of princes who must be taller, stronger, and maybe even smarter then her in order to marry her. They are especially intersted in the only guy who's taller then the princess; unfortunately he's also a Noodle Person who has to wrestle her (she lets him win to avoid injuring him). Meanwhile, she falls for the same prince's pilot/chauffeur, who's much shorter and chubbier but very much her equal. Naturally, he's the real prince and the tall guy is his pilot/chauffeur. They switched because the prince knew his height would've instantly eliminated him, and he thought the whole thing was silly anyway.

In A Song of Ice and Fire, Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo have an arranged marriage. He's a hardened tribal leader who towers over most men, while she's thirteen years old and slight even for her age.

They may never appear and are only mentioned once, but the eight foot tall Gregor Clegane has been married three times. Other examples include Duncan the Tall (6' 11") and Young Nan (Average height and very thin), Sandor Clegane (6' 7") and Sansa Stark (Around 5'). There is also a mention of a slave master who owned both a giant and a dwarf and liked to make them have sex for his guests.

There's also Gendry, who at only 14/15 but is noted as being big and tall for his age around 6'3, and tiny Arya Stark who is 10 years old and under 5'.

In the prequel story, The Sworn Sword, Ser Duncan (6'11") has a flirtatious relationship with Lady Rohanne (4'11") Webber, who is rather short. It's social status, however, and not height, which gets in the way.

Garion is at least six and a half feet (about 2 m) tall, possibly seven feet (about 2.1 m). His wife Ce'Nedra, being part-Dryad, is 5' (152 cm) at most — and repeatedly described as tiny.

Eddings' later work The Elenium has Sir Sparhawk, repeatedly described as an uncommonly tall and burly bruiser of a man, and his eventual wife Queen Ehlana.

In Black House, the biker named Mouse tells of his late girlfriend, Little Nancy. Jack asks how big Little Nancy was, since Mouse is 6'2'' and 290 pounds. Mouse remarks that he could have lifted her one-handed.

Played for Body Horror rather than humor in Ramsey Campbell's Cthulhu Mythos story "The Faces At Pine Dunes", in which Michael's tall father has grown enormously fat and his mother is petite.

Derek and Chloe from the Darkest Powers series. Derek is built like a linebacker, with shoulders nearly as broad as the average doorway, and stands at around 6'3" or so. He also weighs about 220lbs. Chloe is five-foot-nothing and probably weighs 100lbs soaking wet.

Captain Carrot and Angua von Uberwald of Discworld. Angua has never been described as particularly small, granted, but it probably wouldn't matter, seeing as Carrot is 6'5" (196cm) and nearly as broad across the shoulder.

Thomas and Justine. Thomas has been mentioned as tall (though not nearly as tall as Harry), and Justine has been described as tiny, frail, and waif-ish.

Queens Mab and Titania, rulers of Winter and Summer respectively, are described as appearing close to 6 feet in most forms (they can change their shape to a certain degree). Their peers in Faerie are Santa Claus and The Erl-King. Both men are described as well over 7 feet tall.

Dragon Bones has Gentle Giant Ward, and his younger sister Ciarra, who is so small she looks more like twelve than her actual age of sixteen. They usually greet each other by her jumping onto him to hug him, and his picking her up and whirling her around.

The titular character's father is 192 cm (6'3" and a half), and her mother is third-grader size at "barely over" 125 cm (4'1" and a half).

Kevin Usher is described as being rather large, quite unlike his rather petite wife Virginia.

Abigail Hearns, while tall for a Grayson, is still average height at most. Her armsman, San Martin-born Mateo Gutierrez, is two meters tall and weighs 200 kilograms.

Lady Dame Estelle Matsuko, Baroness Medusa, Imperial Governor of the Talbott Quadrant, barely clears five feet (158 cm) and is delicately built. Her military counterpart, station commander Admiral Augustus Khumalo, is not only easily over six feet, but described with words like "massive".

Kyle and Jodi/Sunny from The Host. This also is the fate of Ian and Wanda in Pet's body.

Also invoked in the movie as while Jake Abel who plays Ian isn't massively tall at 6'1, he still ends up towering over Wanda, played by the 5'2 Emily Browning

Skua September and Isili Hasboga from The End of the Matter. Skua is described by many characters as the biggest man they've ever seen, while his employer Isili's description pegs her as half a head shorter than teenage Flinx (who'd not yet grown tall).

In Death series: This trope is played straight a few times, and Mavis and Leonardo happen to be the recurring couple to fit this trope.

In any P. G. Wodehouse story where Stinker Pinker and Stiffy Bing make an appearance, Bertie will introduce them in the narration by remarking how they embody this trope.

In Dorothy Dunnett's King Hereafter, 6'6 (and massively ugly) Thorfinn, aka Macbeth, is married to Gruoch, who is small and short enough for him to pick up and carry. This is based on a historical account of Thorfinn carrying her to safety when their home was attacked by enemies.

In Lorna Doone, John Ridd is described as being able to carry away the doorframe of Sir Ensor Doone's house. For reference the doorway is 6 feet and one inch high and nearly two feet across. Lorna on the other hand is slim, such that half of John's arm can go around her.

To some extent, George and Jessie Challenger from Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Notably, Challenger is short (well, at least when compared to Edward Malone), but only because he has short, stocky legs. His chest, arms and head are huge, and his wife is a tiny, thin woman whom he is able to lift absolutely without any effort. To Malone, they together resemble a gorilla and a gazelle.

Brother/Sister version in The Millennium Trilogy books, with the Zalachenko half-siblings. Super-hacker Lisbeth is less than five feet tall and skinny even for her size. Her half-brother is a towering, ridiculously muscled bruiser.

Not a romance, but the partnership of Tuskanini and Super Gnat in the Phule's Company novels. He's the biggest member of the Omega Mob, she's the smallest, and they are a solid team, to the point that very pacifistic Tusk slugs a sergeant for picking on his partner.

Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth Tom Builder is described to be unusually tall and muscular and His second wife Ellen is described to be leaner and smaller

In Pride and Prejudice, Darcy is described several times as tall and once as a "great, tall fellow" by Bingley, while Elizabeth is supposedly lithe from her walking and 15 year old Lydia and Georgianna are both taller than her.

Jean, who is larger than average, and Ezri, who is petite (but the tallest of all her sisters) in Red Seas Under Red Skies.

In Shade's Children by Garth Nix, Ella isn't described as being particularly small, but she certainly would seem so next to her teammate Drum, who was dosed with steroids as a child. One scene implied that her armpits were about level with his waist. Interestingly, Ella is almost certainly the elder.

In The Sharing Knife series: Fawn "I'm not a child, I'm just short" Bluefield and Dag Redwing, who's so tall and lanky that Fawn can't reach up to touch his face unless he stoops.

In Twisted, Clare is a petite human woman, Railrunner is an anthropomorphic rollercoaster that's over twenty feet long and weighs several thousand pounds.

In the Spellsinger universe, native residents of the fantasy world are significantly shorter than those in the non-magical twenty-first century world. Talea is in fact quite tall by her native world's standards, but she's much shorter than her love interest, the six-foot Fish out of Water Jon-Tom.

Early in The Stand, Nick meets the sheriff, a huge man, and later his wife, a slight little thing, leading Nick to ponder the trope and its implications.

Corie and Elisandra's parent figures (mother in Elisandra's case), Jaxon and Greta in Summers at Castle Auburn. Jaxon is a huge, wild-looking man, while Greta is so small that if she could ever be quiet, people would overlook her. Fortunately for Greta and unfortunately for those around her, she is never quiet.

Buri and Raoul. When introduced in the first book series Buri is described as being reasonably short. Raoul is well over six foot, and apparently a massively built warrior, whereas Buri is a waif like rider. It gets pointed out directly once, when the two stand next to each other Buri doesn't even reach Raoul's shoulder.

There's also Daine and Numair; in Wolf Speaker, it said that Daine was 5 feet 5 inches (at the age of fourteen) and Numair is 6'5"

Twilight: Alice and Jasper. Jasper is super tall, lanky, but WAY above average, and Alice is repeatedly described as tiny and pixie-like. Discarded in the film series, where Ashley Greene and Jackson Rathbone are only 2-3 inches apart in height. There's also any girl with any of the male werewolves.

In John C. Wright's War of the Dreaming, half-titan Raven is married to the very, very petite Wendy. She's not kidding when she says he can pick her up with one hand.

Par for the course in The Wheel of Time. Moiraine and Lan, Nynaeve and Lan, Rand and Min, Perrin and Faile, Mat and Tuon. Rand, Lan, and Perrin are all well above average in size, while Moiraine and Tuon are both particularly small women.

During Dinoverse, eighth graders become dinosaurs. Candacye Chambers becomes a pig-sized Leptoceratops, while the two boys she's with become an Ankylosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus rex, respectively. Your Size May Vary, but she does climb on top of Bertram's shell and leap into Mike's tiny arms at various points. Candayce is also considerably smaller than Janine. Once they all return home, she's back to being a tall, leggy girl.

The Rogue King has almost nine foot Koral hook up with a girl whose eyes are 'level with his belt'. But then, most people are that short to him.

A Mage's Power: Laharg the orc is taller and broader than any human. His mercenary partner, Malize, is a fairy and so she's small enough to ride on his head.

In the Ahriman Trilogy Fausto is a giant football player and Zoe is repeatedly described as being tiny. She's a total badass though, so it balances.

The Stormlight Archive: Shallan is quite petite, and constantly annoyed at having to jog to keep up with "storming Alethi and their long legs". With Adolin, the problem is exacerbated when he rides his giant ryshadium.

In The War Gods, Leanna is unusually tall for this trope, being over six feet tall. However, her husband Bahzell is 7'9".

Live-Action TV

Arrow has Felicity and Ray, played by Emily Bett Rickards, 5'5" and Brandon Routh, 6'3''. In all her scenes with him, Felicity is wearing heels, and he still towers over her.

Sara Lance (Played by the 5'6 actress Caity Lotz) and Oliver Queen (Portrayed by the 6'1 Stephen Amell) Are also an example of this trope

Thea Queen and Malcolm Merlyn are 5'5 and 6'

Laurel Lance and her Dad Quentin are also holders of this trope, coming in at 5'7 (Laurel) and 6'3 1/2 (Quentin, Making him one of the tallest in the show)

Recently, the character of Curtis Holt (played by 6'5 actor Echo Kellum) and Felicity fit this trope, some BTS pics have EBR up to his chest.

On Selfie, John Cho's Henry dates a girl he's alike to in almost every way-except while he's slightly taller than average, she's positively tiny, not even making it to 5 feet of height, with nearly a full foot difference between them.

The CI casting directors doubled down on this when they brought back Mike Logan (6'1" Chris Noth) in Season 5, pairing him with Carolyn Barek (Annabella Sciorra, 5'2"). Makes it pretty fun when all 4 partners are in the squadroom together in "In The Wee Small Hours".

After Sciorra did not return for S6, this trope was avoided with Logan's other two partners, Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson, 5'9") and Nola Falacci (Alicia Witt, 5'8").

Sylar is 6'2" and Elle is 5'1". He has the same height difference with Claire.

Claire and any guy she stands next to, including Hiro (that's right, Hiro's actually taller than somebody!), Peter, the aforementioned Sylar and her father(s).

Noah Bennet and Eden are boss and subordinate, she is clearly tinier than him and is only slightly taller than Claire.

Part of the reason the Cliff/Olivia comedy dynamic worked so well on The Cosby Show was that she was tiny, making the slightly-taller-than-average height Cliff look huge.

All in the Family had 6'2" Mike and 5'1" Gloria. Gloria often wore platform shoes to help with the size difference.

Pushing Daisies had most of its relationships qualify—its four leads were a pair of tall guys (actors Lee Pace and Chi McBride are 6'5" and 6'4", respectively) and a pair of petite women (actors Kristin Chenoweth and Anna Friel are 4'11" and 5'2", respectively). As it made for some great sight gags, the writers loved to play with this trope.

On Charmed, often the men are much larger and brawnier than the women, which can be seen particularly with Phoebe, while she was dating Cole, and in the 8th season, when she was with Coop. Milano, who played Phoebe, is 5'2. Both the actors were 6'3.

Fiona Glennane (Gabrielle Anwar) in Burn Notice is fairly small compared to the male cast, with Michael being taller but Sam and Jesse are more muscular.

Dwight Schrute and Angela Martin from The Office (US). Another one of the reasons the pairing is cute despite its obvious weirdness.

Darryl and Kelly, too. Also somewhat difficult to avoid with an actor as tall as John Krasinski (6'3").

A subversion occurs with Kurt and Blaine◊ on-screen: Chris Colfer (Kurt) is somewhat taller than Darren Criss (Blaine). However, Kurt is the more feminine of the two, which creates a general expectation that if anything, Blaine should be taller than Kurt. The fact that Kurt is the taller one, if only by so much, makes the size difference between them seem bigger to the viewer than it actually is.

In season 2 when Blaine was playing a mentor role for Kurt, the show actively tried to hide their height difference, even in promo photoshoots.

Parodied in one episode when Debra's in-laws come to visit, and Debra's mother (Katherine Helmond), who is just as short as Debra, tries to kiss Robert on the cheek.

In Chuck Zachary Levi (Chuck) who is 6'4" is at some point paired with Rachel Bilson (Lou, a Romantic False Lead) who is 5'2", a full foot and two inches shorter! She even mentions that she is "intrigued by their height difference".

A non-romantic example with Adam Baldwin as John Casey and Mekenna Melvin, who plays his daughter, Alex. Baldwin is already enormous (6'4" like Levi, but is built like a tank), but Melvin's tiny 5'0" just exaggerates the difference even further.

In the "The Final Four" episode of Neil Flynn's show The Middle, the trope is lampshaded when his character meets his wife's Boss for the first time and the Boss remarks about how short women always go for tall men.

Lily and Marshall from How I Met Your Mother, with a solid foot difference between Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel. At one point, during a Pregnancy Scare, she panicked when when she was told that Marshall was the size of a Thanksgiving turkey when born. A Halloween episode had them dressed up as Sonny and Cher—with Lily as Sonny and Marshall as Cher. Lily once had a nightmare about Marshall leaving her for a woman who was, in Nightmare!Marshall's words, "more height appropriate."

This extends to Marshall's entire family with Lily. In his family he is the "runt of the litter" and when visiting she could only give waist hugs. The shortest member of his family is his mother, played by 6'2" Suzie Plakson, who seems short in relation to her giant sons.

Another platonic example on NCIS: LA - Boss Hetty (played by 4'9" Linda Hunt) is frequently in scenes opposite team psychologist Nate (played by 6'4" Peter Cambor), as they are two of the 'left behind' characters when the team go on missions. This is often played for laughs, with Nate forced to stoop over Hetty's Hetty-sized desk.

Homicide: Life on the Street had Emma Zoole. played by 5'1" Lauren Tom, briefly dating Tim Bayliss, played by 6'5" Kyle Secor. Before that, she flirted with the 6'2" Lewis.

From Merlin, Arthur and Guinevere. At one point they had a gag that involved Gwen hiding from sight behind Arthur. She was completely obscured until he stood aside, telling Morgana: "There's someone here to see you..." In one promotional picture that involves the two of them kissing, Angel Coulby is quite clearly standing on her toes.

House and Cuddy were together in season seven of House. Hugh Laurie is 6'2.5", while Lisa Edelstein is 5'4", putting them 10.5 inches apart.

Rene Artois in 'Allo 'Allo! has this going on with two of his mistresses, Maria and Mimi (especially Mimi, since her actress is over a foot shorter than Gordon Kaye who plays Rene), to the point they have to stand on a stool to kiss him and neither can hug him and put their arms more than halfway around.

Daenerys is fairly short and slight, while her husband Khal Drogo is pretty damn massive, with Dany barely coming up to his chest. He is a reallllllly beefy dude as well. Some measurements: Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys, is 5"2. Jason Momoa, who plays Drogo, is all of 6"4, and, as mentioned above, has the body of a rugby player.

Arya, at barely 5' and skinny for her age, has this with Gendry (who is noted to take after his well-built father) when they travel together for several seasons and later ends up roaming the countryside with Sander "The Hound" Clegane, at 6' 6", which looks quite amusing.

In season four of Supernatural, Sam Winchester (played by 6'5" Jared Padalecki) and Ruby (5'4" Genevieve Cortese) definitely fit this trope (they are also a real life example as Padalecki and Cortese later got married). Naturally, Padalecki towers over virtually every actress he has ever been paired with, romantically or otherwise. He even tends to make his male co-stars look much shorter and smaller than they actually are, including his on-screen brother Jensen Ackles (who is 6'1'').

On The X-Files, David Duchovny (6'.5") was ten and a half inches taller than Gillian Anderson (5'2"). Hence the "Scully Box".

This trope is used for a sight gag on Boy Meets World: Frankie, who is quite tall and large, and his dad, played by professional wrestler Vader, are at a meeting in Mr. Feeny's office and them stepping out of the room reveals a short, waif woman who's revealed to be Frankie's mom was standing behind them the whole time.

The episode "Voyage of the Damned" on Doctor Who had this with the Doctor, played by the 6'1" David Tennant, and Astrid Peth, played by Kylie Minogue, who is only five feet tall. This is fully played up in one scene when Astrid literally pulls up a box and stands on it to give the Doctor a goodbye kiss.

Not to mention 5'4" Lis Sladen with her Doctors, 6'3" Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee. Third Doctor companion Katy Manning was even shorter, at 5'1"!

In The City Hunter, actor Lee Min Ho is only comparatively tall at 6'1", but he's huge compared to the diminutive actresses he's paired with. Lampshaded by one of them:

"He's so tall that giving him a once-over hurts my neck..."

Live With Kelly And Michael (formerly known as Live With Regis and Kathy Lee/Kelly) hosts Kelly Ripa (tiny soap opera star, 5'3") and Michael Strahan (tall ex-New York Giants player, 6'5"). Also doubles as Salt and Pepper.

Played with in Monty Python's Flying Circus' "Scott of the Antarctic" sketch, where initially the actor playing Scott is walking around with boxes under his shoes, while Miss Evans is standing in a trench. Pythonesque absurdity ensues.

When Juliette introduces her fiancee Sean to the musicians in Nashville, he is way taller than she is.

Gunnar and Scarlett are another example, played by the 6'2" Sam Palladio and the 5'2" Clare Bowen.

On Community Jeff - portrayed by 6'4 Joel McHale - when paired with either Britta or Annie - respectively the 5'4" Gillian Jacobs and the 5'3" Alison Brie.

Sleepy Hollow gives us Ichabod and Abbie, played by Tom Mison, who is 6'1", and Nicole Beharie, who is 5'1", respectively. She comes up to his shoulder, and that's in heels.

Stargate Atlantis has Jason Momoa (6'4") so this comes up a couple of times. First, there's some Ship Tease with Dr. Keller, then the show ends on a Maybe Ever After between Ronon and Amelia Banks. Both actresses are about 5'5".

Brooke Burns, hostess of the US version of The Chase, is 5'8", which is above-average for an American female. However, the trope is played straight when she stands next to the 6'6", 370 lb. Mark "The Beast" Labbett.

On Baby Daddy, they have Danny Wheeler, played by the 6'5" Derek Theler, meaning most of his love interests will fall into this to some degree, but they occasionally go out of their way to find especially petite actresses to help sell his Gentle Giant demeanor, such as Amy,◊ played by the 5'3" Lacey Chabert.

Liv and Maddie has Maddie and Diggy, played by Dove Cameron (5ft 2) and Ryan McCartan (6ft 1) the top of her head barely come up to his shoulders (also counts as a real life example as Cameron and McCartan are actually dating).

Andy and April on Parks and Recreation he's eight inches taller and about twice as broad as she is. Its best shown on occasion when he protects her from hornets, and is able to cover most of her upper body with his jumper, while her head still only barely reaches the bottom of his neck.

Austin and Ally from Austin & Ally Austin is eleven inches taller than Ally, and twice as wide, the top of her head just reaches the bottom of his neck in heels. Its particularly noticeable in the opening sequence, where he crouches down quite a bit, so they are eye to eye.

Eek-A-Mouse's song Rude Boy is about people having a problem with him being so much taller than his girlfriend. With the lyrics Whole heap a people jus' a start to laughShe too short an' a me too tallShe too short an' a me too tall, ey (its in Jamaican Patois)

The video for Aerosmith's "Love in an Elevator" has, among 2 mannequins coming to life and various couples, as Steven Tyler puts it in the song, "shagging in the elevator", there is one couple consisting of a huge man and a female midget.

Fleetwood Mac gives us 5'1" Stevie Nicks and 6'5" Mick Fleetwood. Never officially a couple, but they did have an affair.

The music video for "Paparazzi" had the 5'1" Lady Ga Ga dating 6'4" Alexander Skarsgard

Märchen von Friedhof and Elise from the Rock Opera, Märchen. Märchen himself isn't exceptionally tall, but he doesn't need to be when Elise is the size of a porcelain doll.

Gorillaz gives us a platonic example with Russel and Noodle, particularly in Phase Three◊, though the Gorillabitez short "Game Of Death" shows that she was able to flip him at age ten. To a lesser extent, Noodle is also a Morality Pet for Murdoc, who is fairly tall (though not huge) at 5"10 and 2D who is 6"3 was shown carrying her on his back in the video for "Rock It".

The Jonathan Coulton song "Just As Long As Me" is about a guy who is sick of this trope and is trying to find a love interest of comparable height.

Rapper Sage The Gemini is 6'5" and towers over most of the girls in his music videos, especially noticeable in "Red Nose" (where he towers over pretty much everybody).

Silhouette's weight in Future Of Wrestling was listed as "not telling", but it was safe to say it was significantly less than the wrestler she managed and lured away form Bobby Rogers, Maximum Capacity, who weight in a 658 lbs.

Particularly in WWE, where they appreciate the big man (perhaps too much), there can be a lot of Huge Guy Tiny Girl relationships. The hinted at relationship of 7' (2.1m), then-(approximately) 485 lb. (220kg) The Big Show and, though she was not very slender herself, 5'3" (160cm) Joy Giovanni, for example.

In the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary concert: tiny Lea Salonga as Fantine and Jeff Nicholson, who's taller then the rest of the cast as the Factory Foreman.

Video Games

Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan, in the StarCraft series, especially when he wears the Marine PoweredArmor and she dons the Ghost SpyCatsuit. Jim has to bow down to kiss Sarah.

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West gives us Monkey and Trip. Monkey is a HUGE, muscular wild man who can pretty easily rip war robots into pieces. Trip is a light, young teenager who relies on her brains to get things done. He carries her around on his back and throws her onto ledges and across gaps like it's nothing. She's only nineteen, and we aren't really given an age for Monkey, but it's safe to assume that he's a few years older than her.

Super Mario Bros.: Inverted between Mario and Princess Peach, whose height varies from 1.5 to nearly twice Mario's, depending on the game. He'd look like a kid standing next to her, were it not for his moustache.

Yeto and Yeta from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. They're yetis, so perhaps it's justified as being an aspect of their species - but then again, Yeto is over twice the size of Yeta...

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a brother/sister example with Sidon and Mipha of the Zora. Sidon is several heads taller than the average Zora, who are already twice as tall as the average Hylian such as Link, whereas Mipha is a head shorter than Link (though it's faintly implied that she had yet to reach her full adult height). They also have a Sibling Yin-Yang dynamic that matches their respective sizes: Sidon is energetic and sociable, while Mipha is quiet and demure.

Also, in The Sacred Stones, Gilliam/Syrene, Ross and Amelia, and the mentoring/father-daughter bond between Amelia and Duessel. L'Arachel and Dozla is a non-romantic example as well... more in muscles, since according to a support conversation with Ewan, Dozla is shorter than most.

In Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi, you can pair up Lilina (Roy's childhood friend and one of his love interests) with the Gentle Giant Gonzales.

In Fire Emblem Awakening, this is the case for the very short and very child-lookingDivine Dragon Nowi and almost all of her love interests, particularly Gregor, Kellam, Lon'qu and Vaike. Also, a Female Avatar can hook up with a specially tall guy (like those above, plus Basilio, Priam and others) and specially the Heel–Face Turn-ed Walhart who seems to be the tallest and most muscular of them ALL. note Though this only works if the Female Avatar has the "early teen" (very short girl who seems to be under 15 years old) or "late teen" (average height girl) builds; the "older woman" build makes her rather tall.) The last one also overlaps with May–December Romance.

While not as extreme as in Nowi's case, pairing up the very short and young Tomboy Princess Lissa with a specially tall guy (like the aforementioned Gregor, Lon'qu, Kellam and Vaike) can give a similar impression.

a Male Avatar can hook up with either Lissa or Nowi and invoke the trope via using either Build 1 (standard, rather tall but not exaggeratedly so) or Build 3 (The Big Guy, around Gregor and/or Vaike's height)

In regards to the Second Generation group - Yarne, Brady and Gerome are the tallest guys of the band (with Laurent following not too far behind and adding a HUGE Nice Hat) whereas girl!Morgan, Cynthia and Nah are the shortest girls. Pairing them up causes this trope to happen. Nah and Cynthia can also marry a male Avatar, and a female Avatar can hook up with either Yarne, Brady, Gerome or Laurent, so...

Fire Emblem Fates can potentially have the trope in regards to almost any woman who marries the Gentle Giant Benny, the hunk Arthur, or the Warrior Princes Ryoma and Xander. This includes a Female Avatar, and double if she has the "younger girl" build.

Regarding the Second Generation, this can happen if either Benny's son Ignatius, Xander's son Siegbert or Ryoma's son Shiro marries a short girl, like the positively tiny Badass Adorable Midori. Again, a Female Avatar is included.

Resident Evil 6 takes it even further by partnering Jake Muller, possibly the biggest RE guy yet, with tiny Sherry Birkin. This is actually reflected on the gameplay: when climbing up an obstacle, Chris and Leon typically boost their slightly smaller partner (Piers and Helena respectively) up, who then help them up from above. Sherry, however, simply cannot pull Jake, who's easily twice her weight, up, meaning they have to find another way there for him.

Sanger Zonvolt and Irui Ganedan from the Super Robot Wars Alpha games. May or may not be romantic. Notable in that while Irui shares a similar relationship with the other main characters in their stories, it's Sanger/Irui that gets all the fanart.

Judging from the ending of Original Generation Gaiden (and the sequel to Endless Frontier), it looks like Axel Almer and Alfimi is going on this way as well.

A mild case in Metal Gear Solid 3, where it's, uh, Huge Guy, Tiny Bishounen. Although Raikov is supposed to be the same height and shape as Naked Snake (hence why his uniform had to be used), Volgin is enormous.

Astro Boy's younger sister Uran seems to have this kind of relationship with the giant robot Pluto in at least one of the alternate timelines in Astro Boy: Omega Factor.

Before that, Hugo and Poison. Even if Poison is a transwoman, she still counts.

Sakura Kasugano and Ryu. Sakura still looks like a teenager despite being at least 20 and her fangirly thoughts on Ryu are strongly implied to have turned into an intense yet unrequited love, whereas he looks quite older than in other games and remains a Celibate Hero. It shows in the Ties that Bind OAV: in the scene where she gives him a desperate Cooldown Hug to bring him back to sanity after he's taken over by the Satsui no Hado, Sakura looks tiny compared to Ryu.

The more dimorphic races in World of Warcraft, especially draenei and trolls. However, both of these are slightly unusual cases: With draenei, both sexes are approximately the same height◊, and it's almost entirely a matter of the fellas being several times wider. With trolls, both sexes are long and lean... but not only are females leaner, but males would be more than One Head Taller if they didn't slouch.

Our main pair is Master Chief and Cortana. The former is a 7' (2.1m) tall supersoldier, and the other is a holographic display usually a mere 6" (15cm) or so, when she's not a two-inch (5cm) chip inserted into his helmet.

Bornstellar's unnamed parents definitely qualify. His father is four meters tall; his mother is only two.

The Didact and his wife the Librarian are a downplayed example. The former is 3.5 meters with the bulk to match, and the other is "only" 2.9 meters and quite slender.

Due to limitations, game graphics weren't able to show the actual size of Turians, but if Garrus' scale figure is anything to go by he's about 7 feet tall, which would most definitely give him this dynamic with female Shepard who has romanced him as well.

Happens easily in City of Heroes where your typical female PC is under 5'10" (178cm) (often under 5' (152cm) even) in height while many male PCs are past the 6'6" (2m) mark and top out at 8'2" (2.5m). Males also have exclusive access to the huge muscular models while females are kept on the slender side.

Happens with NPCs as well. The Carnival of Shadows is the most extreme example, where the Strongmen are 3-4 times the size of the women who order them around.

There's also Ghost Widow and the Wretch. It's hard to tell if it's romantic, seeing as she's a literal ghost, and he's a horribly mutated brute with so little brain power it hurts his head to talk. Still, they definitely care a lot about each other, and it's possible there was something there before they both lost their humanity to the same accident.

In Saints Row 2, Brotherhood leader Maero towers over everyone he meets, including his girlfriend Jessica.

Later games end up going the Pair the Smart Ones route with Oleg and Kinzie. She's not particularly tiny, but he is an absolutely enormous man who would make even Maero seem small.

In Punch-Out!! on Wii, Super Macho Man's opening montage shows him with a series of girlfriends, each one about half his size.

In Final Fantasy X, the villain who's interested in Yuna and does end up marrying her freaking towers over her. Official heights don't make sense and seem to vary between FMV-models and gameplay-models, but general fannish consensus is that Yuna hovers around 5'3", while Seymour is something like 6'4" with a fondness for hairstyles and clothing that makes him look larger than he already is.

Final Fantasy XI Elvaan and Galka males typically dwarf the females of all the other races. Though Fanon seems to have particular appeal for Mithra/Male Elvaan parings, often exaggerating this element to extreme degrees. Most likely because the Mithra are cute little Cat Girl, and the Elvaan are towering Elf Bishōnen.

Final Fantasy XIII: Serah, who is around Vanille's height of 5'4" and just as slim, is engaged to Snow, who is 6'5 (or 6'7, depending on the source) and has a strong muscular build.

Final Fantasy VII (mainly Dirge of Cerberus), Vincent Valentine (6'0") and Yuffie Kisaragi (5'2")(especially for those who are huge fans of Yuffentine). In Dirge of Cerberus, Vincent shares a lot of screen time with diminutive Shelke Rui, a woman with the body of a nine-year-old girl who stands between 4'6" and 4'10". For an even greater height difference, Shelke also has several scenes with Azul (9'5"), more than double her height.

Final Fantasy XIV, The Sultana Nanamo Ul Namo is a Lalafell, the smallest race in Eorzea. Her right hand is the Flame General Raubahn Aldynn, a Highlander Hyru who's both large and strongly built. Raubahn will even carry Nanamo by having her sit on his forearm like a falcon.

The Au Ra can provide both sides of the trope, with their males being among the tallest of the races, while the females are the shortest (Aside from the Lalafell, who they still beat by a good margin).

Eddie and Ophelia in Brütal Legend, to the point where their double-team involves him lifting her with one arm (whereupon she perches comfortably on his biceps) and their combo attack is him throwing her at the enemy, dual blades spinning. In fact, a point could be made that all (reasonably humanoid) males in the game are either tall or possess a Heroic Build of ridiculous proportions; whereas all the (human) girls are lithe killing machines with slender bodies to murder for. Nope, no Wish Fulfillment in this game.

In Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, Roxas and Xion are around the same height, but their friend and mentor Axel borders on the height of the two stacked on top of each other. This may or may not be romantic depending on how you ship them (all shipping combinations of the three have been seen).

In Kingdom Hearts II, Kairi and Riku in Xehanort's Heartless form, because she's tiny when she's standing next to him.

Chain of Memories gives us a non-romantic (or romantic, if you ship that way) example with Lexaeus and Zexion. Lexaeus is easily the largest humanoid character in the series, while Zexion is only slightly taller than the teenaged characters.

Monster Hunter has an inhuman example. The Ludroth are alligator creatures roughly 50% longer than your hunter is tall. All of these are female. The boys - the Royal Ludroth - are four to five times the size of your hunter character. This would be seen as Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action if they weren't the same species.

Dragon Age: Inquisition takes it even further with Iron Bull, a largequnari that can be romanced by a player character of any race or gender. In particular, he dives headfirst into this with an elf or a dwarf of either sex. Female qunari and humans of either sex are less extreme.

Popping up in the Fanon and many ...genres of fanfic since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came out. Pairings of huge guys and tiny girls (sometimes tiny men, too) are extremely popular. Usually the tiny girl/uke is a Breton (magical half-elves) or Wood Elf (the latter particularly if male), these being the two smallest races, while the huge guy is either a Nord (fantasy Viking) or an Orc if the burly look is favored, or a High Elf (the tallest characters in the game, barring the non-playable dremora) if a more Bishōnen aesthetic is desired.

Xenosaga pulls this trope with Ziggy and MOMO, considering MOMO is the size of an 8 year old girl and Ziggy is likely the largest character in the game. After being sent to save MOMO, Ziggy starts to reclaim some bit of his humanity by interacting with the young Realian (synthetic human). He takes the name Ziggy and starts to reconsider his request to have his human memories destroyed.

Gears of War had the art style featuring enormous men and petite women, especially evident when Marcus and Anya are next to each other. At one point Marcus even removes his armor and still has about three times her mass.

Team Fortress 2 has Miss Pauling, the mercenaries' link between Mission Control and the field. She spends a lot of time in the comics talking to Demoman, Soldier, and Heavy, all of whom are much taller and more buff than she is. Soldier and Heavy in particular have been seen acting very protective of her: In the comic Shadow Boxers, Soldier is concerned when he thinks his cardboard costume scared Miss Pauling, and Heavy decided to come on a mission with the two of them, just because Miss Pauling was going.

As mentioned above, on Persona 4, there is Kanji, the tallest member of the Investigation Team, and Naoto, the shortest.

Futaba Sakura, who eventually replaces Morgana as your Mission Control in Persona 5, is not only the youngest member of the Phantom Thieves, but she's also the shortest by a significant margin (excepting Morgana, an anthropomorphic cat). As shown in certain scenes (such as her spending time with the protagonist if you romance her, or when she's talking with Yusuke at the beach), she barely grazes their chests, though this is the result of slightly exaggerated models — going by the actual heights provided for each character, Futaba would hit around chin-height on the protagonist and would come up to Yusuke's shoulders.

Pokémon X and Y have a fairly extreme and strictly platonic example: Ten-foot-tall immortal King AZ and his beloved pet Floette, a teeny-tiny flower fairy Pokemon.

One of the newcomers for Mortal Kombat X is a pair named Ferra/Torr. A hulking man with a teeny tiny woman riding on his shoulders.

Their arcade ending reveals that that Ferra and Torr are actually a symbiotic pair, with Torr requiring Ferra to live as part of their bond as warrior and rider. However, when the Great Metamorphosis hits Ferra, she is practically forced to abandon Torr to die while she undergoes a painful three year-long transformation that turns her into a large, hulking version of herself. An inversion of the trope happens when a small male is chosen to be her rider.

It is far from uncommon for the Disgaea 5 fanbase to pair Usalia and Red Magnus together. Not only is Usalia proportioned like a child (and possibly as young as one in demon terms), but Red Magnus is a big, bulky musclehead before his sizeshifting powers come into play. The Demon Star Splitter combo skill makes the distinction especially clear, as Red Magnus gets to be so big you can't even see Usalia anymore.

Non-romantic example: From Fate/stay night, Ilyasviel "Ilya" von Einzbern and her enormous Servant, Berserker. Also, according to time-skip epilogues and using Archer as obvious evidence, at his adult height, Shirou will tower over the main heroines, especially Saber (who's the shortest Servant by a full head at least).

Archer and Rin works with this as well, for he's about a foot (30cm) taller than she is and 68 lb. (31 kg) heavier.

In the Little Busters! fandom, Gentle Giant Masato and Token Mini-Moe Kud are commonly put together in fanart (almost always non-romantically), though apart from Kud's route being the branching point for Masato's joke ending miniroute Muscle Sensation, they don't interact too much in canon. The anime plays to this by having Kud on Masato's shoulders, both of them cheering, in the second season ending sequence.

Saki, the high-shooler protagonist of Sweet Fuse At Your Side, can be this when paired with the hulking escort, Mitarashi, or the tallest character, fortune teller Urabe.

Also has some non-romantic instances when Shirabe's tiny daughter Mai shows up and takes a liking to Mitarashi.

Viktor Vasko and Ivy Pepper in Lackadaisy. Viktor is over six feet tall, hulking, middle aged, and a former rum runner-turned-bartender. Ivy is a young, flirty college student and flapper- and one of the few characters in the comic that doesn't seem intimidated by Viktor. When asked if they could ever be romantically involved, [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=337 Ivy denies the possibility.

While Reinhold in Dominic Deegan isn't exactly huge for a human knight, Kiya is probably one of the lightest orcs ever seen.

Both the Kings and Queens of Homestuck gain power and change shape as players join their game. But while the Queens retain their more or less human height, the Kings grow with each change until they're mountain-crushing colossi.

And it's the other way around with the Black Queen and Jack Noir, who stands a head shorter than her at least.

Richard Olsen and Sophie in The Overture. Richard towers over most adults and he's still growing. With hair extensions, Sophie barely reaches his stomach.

morphE has one of the guards of the manor, Malloy, protecting his fellow Mastigos Asia Ellis. Asia's sprite goes about 3/5's of the way to the top of the frame. Malloy's is too big and his hair is out of frame.

Myces from Fairy Dust has a 40cm fairy mother and a 2,20m troll father. How they managed to conceive is a question that was asked, but never answered.

The author of Miamaska was dismayed to hear that this trope existed. According to his Tumblr, he specifically gave the characters Amity and Trosce a huge difference in both size and age as a shipping deterrent (he intended to give them a Like Brother and Sister relationship later on). A friend had to warn him later that many fans actually find a height difference incredibly cute, but by then it was too late.

Played platonically and taken to extremes in The Friendly Winter. Min-Seong is an above average height seventeen year old while Da-Jeong is a really short nineteen year old due to having a disorder that left her looking permanently like a little kid.

Manala Next Door: Jacob is big enough to carry his girlfriend Nini on his shoulders.

Sha'shiva from EATATAU has an extreme fetish for guys who are much bigger than she is.

This unnamed US Air Force lieutenant from the space station arc of Questionable Content says that she prefers men who are big enough to be able to bench press her one-handed.

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In Survival of the Fittest, while this is not normally looked at in a romantic way, Bayview (V4's school) has an abnormally tall population. The current average height of a female student is a relatively normal 5'5"...the male population on the other hand has the average height of 6'2.

While not a couple, this is the The Nostalgia Critic and The Nostalgia Chick: Doug is 6'0, Lindsay is 5'2. Especially noticeable in the FernGully review where they're fighting; while the Chick moves around a lot, the Critic never gets up from his chair.

In Suburban Knights, when everyone is revealed in their costumes, Lindsay is dwarfed by everyone.

From Disney's Gargoyles, Goliath and Demona, before Demona turned evil and stuff. Later, Goliath and Elisa Maza, a human, which is more Beast and Beauty, but the brief moments in the episode "The Mirror" when both had been the same species (both ways, even) showed the trope prove true. And then Broadway with Angela.

The size difference between Oberon and Titania is less extreme, but noticeable enough to count as well.

Common in the DC Animated Universe partially due to the art style which tends towards slim women and heavily-built men

The Amazing World of Gumball has Gumball's parents; Richard (a big, fat pink rabbit) and Nicole (a significantly smaller blue cat). Nicole isn't particularly short, but next to her husband (who's bigger than the whole rest of the family put together), she definitely looks it.

The Fairly OddParents! Jorgen Von Strangle and the Tooth Fairy, despite the Tooth Fairy being significantly taller than most of the other fairies.

Timber Wolf and Phantom Girl have this dynamic in the Legion Of Superheroes (not counting when Timber Wolf transforms into his monster form where his height nearly doubles), it's more noticeable in Season 2 with Timber Wolf being well over 6' tall and Phantom Girl being around 5'4" or 5'5".

Sari and Bumblebee are a platonic example due to the mental ages involved. Lugnut and Strika are an aversion (although their relationship is only mentioned in secondary material) as they're both massive.

Big Macintosh is about a full head taller than Cheerilee and twice her build. Though this is all down to Mac being large, as Cheerilee is exactly the same stature as >90% of other mares.

Also, Cup and Carrot Cake both have unique bodies, her being chubby but no shorter than most mares while he is very tall and thin.

While not remarkably huge, Twilight Sparkle's older brother Shining Armor is noticeably taller and beefier than his wife, Cadance. Notable in the fact that Cadance is an Alicorn, a kind of pony royalty that normally towers over normal Unicorns, Pegasi and Earth Ponies.

In the DuckTales (1987) episode "Top Duck", Launchpad's father Ripcord is bigger and more muscular than his son, whereas Launchpad's mother Birdy is only half his height.

Miraculous Ladybug: Marinette's parents. The father is tall and very broad-shouldered, while the mother is a small Chinese woman, not even as tall as her daughter.

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The males of most mammal species average larger than females, but some species have a particularly large size differential.

The southern elephant seal is probably the most extreme example, with males averaging roughly five times the mass of females. Female elephant seals typically grow to about 1700 lbs, while the males average a whopping 7000 lbs (and have been known to reach as much as 9000lbs)!

As is noted in the Real Life section of this trope's counterpoint's page, most species of arthropods (arachnids, insects, crustaceans, etc.), reptiles, and birds tend to avert this; the only clade in the animal kingdom to (usually) play it straight is mammalia.

Fossils of Australopithecus afarensis reveal this trope to be Older Than Dirt, as the males were nearly 50% taller than their female counterparts, such as "Lucy."

Even older than that, the famous pterosaur Pteranodon was known to have had this dynamic; male Pteranodons could have a wingspan of up to eighteen feet while their female counterparts had a wingspan of only twelve feet. The males also had larger crests on their heads, with the females having either smaller crests or no crests at all.

Hayden Panettiereand Wladimir Klitschko◊; she's roughly 5'1" and he's 6'6" (and a heavyweight boxing champion), which makes for a height difference of about 17 inches. She actually sort of quoted this trope when on Live With Regis And Kelly - she told Mr. Philbin and Miss Ripa that when they met their initial conversation went thusly:

Hayden: You're huge!

Wladimir: You're tiny!

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. He's 6'2", she's 5' even. Jada Pinkett Smith actually auditioned for the role of Will's girlfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air but was rejected because of this trope.

Practically mandatory in pairs figure skating, due to all the acrobatic lifts and throws required. The greatest disparity on record was a Russian pair where the man was over a foot taller and the girl hadn't yet reached puberty (when she did, the partnership ended).

Shakira (4'11") is married to Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué, who is almost 17 inches taller.

William the Conqueror (5'10") was considered to be tall for his time, while his wife Matilda is thought to have been only between 4'2" and 5'. She still bore him 8 kids.

Mills Darden, who if history is to be believed was about 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m) tall and weighed around 1,000 to 1,100 pounds (450 to 500 kg). His wife Mary was was 4 feet 11 inches (1.50 m) tall and weighed 98 pounds (44 kg). They had seven children.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is 6'5". His wife Chirlane McCray appears to hover a little over 5'. Both of their kids fall somewhere in between, though his son Dante's massive afro helps close the gap somewhat.

Professional wrestler Vader had a mother who stood 4'10" and a father who was 6'6". Considering he definitely took more after his father, it's unsurprising his birth had to be induced early for safety reasons (he was 11 pounds and 23 inches at birth).

The voice actors for the title characters of of Rocky and Bullwinkle were this. See this video for proof. In fact, June Foray was just 4'11" and thus ended up being the Tiny Girl to everyone's Huge Guy.

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